Question

At the end of a meal in a restaurant, a person wants to have pie a la mode (pie topped with ice cream) for dessert. there are 5 flavors of ice cream--chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, peach, and coffee--and there are 2 kinds of pie--apple and cherry. if the waiter picks the pie and ice cream at random, what is the probability that the person will get apple pie with vanilla ice cream?

Answer 1

The answer will be 1/10

Answer 2

1/5x1/2=1/10

1/5 because there are 5 flavors.
1/2 because there are 2 kinds of pies.
So the answer is 1/10.

Hope this helps.